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the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Morals'

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A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
Henry James, American Writer (1843-1916)
In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.
Anna Jameson, British Writer (1794-1860)
There were certain questions about the foundations of morals that advances in science all threaten to make more complicated.
Leon Kass, American Educator (1939-  )
The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
Zoltan Kodaly, Hungarian Composer (1882-1967)
Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
Karl Kraus, Austrian Writer (1874-1936)
Ain't nobody making music to not be heard and the easiest way to be heard is to be on the radio, but you should never compromise who you are, your values or your morals.
Talib Kweli, American Musician (1975-  )
All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.
Joseph Lancaster, English Educator (1778-1838)
Many thousands of youth have been deprived of the benefit of education thereby, their morals ruined, and talents irretrievably lost to society, for want of cultivation: while two parties have been idly contending who should bestow it.
Joseph Lancaster, English Educator (1778-1838)
I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.
James Larkin, Irish Activist (1875-1947)
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
Vladimir Lenin, Russian Leader (1870-1924)
There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.
Gerald F. Lieberman, American Writer
Politics have no relation to morals.
Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian Writer (1469-1527)
Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.
Horace Mann, American Educator (1796-1859)
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
Michel de Montaigne, French Philosopher (1533-1592)
There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals.
Demi Moore, Actress (1962-  )
Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.
Gouverneur Morris, American Statesman (1752-1816)
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
George Jean Nathan, American Editor (1882-1958)
I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character.
Corin Nemec, American Actor (1971-  )
I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
Barack Obama, American President (1961-  )
It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
Margaret Oliphant, Scottish Novelist (1828-1897)
 
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